linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: io-apic - get rid of __DO

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Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:31:05 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: io-apic - get rid of __DO_ACTION macro


* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >>
> >> hope we can keep using MACRO..
> >>
> >> YH
> >>
> >
> > Btw, Yinghai, what does it mean? To not touch this macro at all?
> > Or you mean about implementation issue (ie the design itself)?
> 
> do not touch this macro... and may revisit after 2.6.28

anything you are particularly worried about? Regressions we should be 
able to find pretty quickly, in a central macro like that - and the 
macro is quite ugly.

	Ingo
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